what a delightful article, i have happy memories of riding on sentinel buses. when i was at school in the late 1940′s in shrewsbury, mid wales motorways had a contract with the school to convey the boys to and from shrewsbury baths. most times 2 or 3 sentinels would turn up and their interiors can best be described as faded magnificence. 2 other shropshire bus companies i knew well at that time were williamsons motorways of longdon road shrewsbury, and their long time driver eddy would convey us to wellington market on a thursday in one of their then modern bedford ob’s.
i then moved to ludlow and corvedale motors were well known to me with their large fleet of allsorts including bedford ob’s, sb’s and ex londodon transport guy’s amongst others. i now have a comprehensive collectiom of photos of all 3 bus companies, anyway thank you very much for stirring my memories . more such articles please.

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i have found out about the start of h a brown and sons. mr h a brown began operations in 1920 with a daimler car and as the business grew so the sons were taken into partnership, ans as at 1971 4 sons were in partnership
the business of w evans of wrockwardine was acquired during the war. the business expanded dramatacally after the war and several makes of buses/coaches were added. browns owned 8 sentinels 2 of which were ex sentinel company demonstrators. haw 302/3 haw 373/4 hnt 49, hnt 101 and juj 264 also guj 608.
in 1971 the firm ran excursions to southsea,bournemouth and margate in addition to their local stage carriage work. the sentinel haw 374 was gradually broken up for spares. all in all a most interesting fleet

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